The simple plain ricotta was actually one of my first experiments with raw buckwheat and I was really amazed how much it resembled “the real thing”. It is great for breakfast, snack or dessert being totally dairy-free. For me raw buckwheat is one of the greatest findings since discovering plant-based […]
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Plant-Based Flourless Kale-Mushroom Pizza
Healthy and delicious plant-based and flourless kale-mushroom pizza on cauliflower-chickpea base. I know I missed the international vegan pizza day, but this was because I was finishing eCornell’s course on Plant-Based Nutrition – a pretty good excuse I think 🙂 All the same, I managed to prepare a pizza my […]
Ricotta-Biscuit Tart (Plant-Based)
This vegan ricotta biscuit tart is a wonderfully healthy way to celebrate festivities like Midsummer’s Day or for July 4. I got the idea for this ricotta-biscuit tart when my 4-year-old and his mates at kindergarten prepared the classic version of the tart with dairy and white-flour-sugar biscuits for Mother’s […]
Abolishing Heart Disease
Coronary artery disease, the most common form of heart disease, which is responsible for heart attacks need never exist and if it does exist, it need never progress. How can one make that statement when coronary disease is the leading killer of women and men in western civilization? Astonishing findings […]
5 Reasons To Eat Spruce Tips & 8 Ways To Use Them
I went for a walk in the park yesterday and picked a pocketful (I did not have anything else to put them into) of spruce tips. “Why on earth?” some might ask. They taste so good and are packed with vitamin C! When I finished picking the tips I felt […]
Homemade Almond Milk
Instead of buying overpriced nut milk with unwanted additives, make your own healthy homemade almond milk. I hear so much people complaining how expensive it is to buy almond milk or hazelnut milk or any nut milk. My answer always is simple – do not buy it. Instead, prepare homemade […]
What-You-Have-In-Hand Oven Omelette
Nutritious and delicious oil-free vegan oven omelette with summer squash, carrots and chickpea flour. There I was the other evening – the fridge almost empty, but needed to fix something for dinner. I only had a summer squash, carrots, half turnip, potatoes, and celery stalks left. I chose omelette. At […]
How to Make Oil-Free White Bean Salad Dressing
Learn how easy and quick it is to make plant-based oil-free white bean dressing to top your salads or Buddha bowls. You’ll need a blender and less than 10 minutes of your time. When I adopted whole foods’ diet, the hardest part was to find substitution to the oil I […]
Heart Disease Starts in Childhood
By age 10, nearly all kids have fatty streaks in their arteries. This is the first sign of atherosclerosis, the leading cause of death in the United States. So the question for most of us is not whether we should eat healthy to prevent heart disease, but whether we want […]
Creamy Coconut Ice Cream
I am sure everyone loves ice cream. Usually it is made of dairy with lots of additives in it. But how if I make coconut ice cream? I do not consume any dairy products for more than two years now, but still would love the taste of a decadent ice […]
Foods Containing The Most And The Least Pesticides 2014
Environmental Working Group (EWG) publishes its annual rating of conventional foods with the most and least pesticide residues.
How to Make Gluten-Free Vegan Rhubarb Muffins [Sugar-Free]
These vegan rhubarb muffins make a perfect breakfast or a lean snack to enjoy in the afternoon with tea. Besides being quick and easy to make, they are also oil-free, sugar-free, dairy-free, gluten-free (if you use gluten-free oat flour). The reasons I love those vegan rhubarb muffins so much: extremely […]